PB Nation dead...?

[MAr]

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[Chuck E Ducky]

Big Mike made the call and the TecPB hold outs ran down PBN at the 50spot.

[scottieb]

I miss when the Caturday thread was going strong.

[DocsMachine]

I'm genuinely curious what the owner has in mind for the place. Does John own it, or is he just the admin? If he's the admin, is he doing it for actual pay or just in some forlorn hope the place doesn't die completely? If he does own it... what's the plan? Hope BBS type forums come back? I mean, I'd like that, too, but I genuinely don't see that happening anytime soon.

Unfortunately, it's a catch-22: Nobody posts there because there's no one to read it, and nobody's there to read because nobody posts anything.

Anybody have any insight?

And, just 'cause I feel like a busybody, I think part of the problem was PBN spread out too much. I've mentioned it here a couple of times- people ask for a specific subsection for a style of play or a brand of marker, and that just splits traffic and, I believe, reduces overall interaction.

I mentioned earlier in this thread that one of the big things Facebook does is feeds you your interests. You don't have to go looking for it, it's right there in your feed. In a place like PBN, you'd want to check the News section, the tournaments section, the section for games in your area, and two or three marker-specific sections, and then go see if there's anything in BST that you couldn't live without.

That's work- not hard work, but you have to make the effort, FB feeds it all to you automatically.

The separation worked back when the place was getting 100K page views a day, and thousands of new posts/submissions, but when all of that is down in the hundreds? Splitting a hundred posts up into fifty sections means there's basically no real traffic. (And I'm not sure PBN gets even 20 posts a day, let alone a hundred.)

Doc.

[TF_Aloha]

And, just 'cause I feel like a busybody, I think part of the problem was PBN spread out too much. I've mentioned it here a couple of times- people ask for a specific subsection for a style of play or a brand of marker, and that just splits traffic and, I believe, reduces overall interaction.

I mentioned earlier in this thread that one of the big things Facebook does is feeds you your interests. You don't have to go looking for it, it's right there in your feed. In a place like PBN, you'd want to check the News section, the tournaments section, the section for games in your area, and two or three marker-specific sections, and then go see if there's anything in BST that you couldn't live without.

That's work- not hard work, but you have to make the effort, FB feeds it all to you automatically.

The separation worked back when the place was getting 100K page views a day, and thousands of new posts/submissions, but when all of that is down in the hundreds? Splitting a hundred posts up into fifty sections means there's basically no real traffic. (And I'm not sure PBN gets even 20 posts a day, let alone a hundred.)

Doc.

I think switching over to an old Reddit style site (not the current hellscape) would work really well. You can still have 50+ forums, but users can subscribe to the ones they want. Then, your homepage just feeds the new activity from those forums into one place. It would have the same ease of Facebook but without algorithmic meddling in what you see. Maybe even let users have two homepages so that B/S/T can be segregated and they don't have their actual discussion threads hidden beneath a mile of idiots typing "bump" every hour.

[RPP]

I'm genuinely curious what the owner has in mind for the place. Does John own it, or is he just the admin? If he's the admin, is he doing it for actual pay or just in some forlorn hope the place doesn't die completely? If he does own it... what's the plan? Hope BBS type forums come back? I mean, I'd like that, too, but I genuinely don't see that happening anytime soon.

Unfortunately, it's a catch-22: Nobody posts there because there's no one to read it, and nobody's there to read because nobody posts anything.

Anybody have any insight?

And, just 'cause I feel like a busybody, I think part of the problem was PBN spread out too much. I've mentioned it here a couple of times- people ask for a specific subsection for a style of play or a brand of marker, and that just splits traffic and, I believe, reduces overall interaction.

I mentioned earlier in this thread that one of the big things Facebook does is feeds you your interests. You don't have to go looking for it, it's right there in your feed. In a place like PBN, you'd want to check the News section, the tournaments section, the section for games in your area, and two or three marker-specific sections, and then go see if there's anything in BST that you couldn't live without.

That's work- not hard work, but you have to make the effort, FB feeds it all to you automatically.

The separation worked back when the place was getting 100K page views a day, and thousands of new posts/submissions, but when all of that is down in the hundreds? Splitting a hundred posts up into fifty sections means there's basically no real traffic. (And I'm not sure PBN gets even 20 posts a day, let alone a hundred.)

Doc.

To my shady knowledge John is no longer assosicaed with it and its owned by Vertical Scope.